Labor Unions Join ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protest for Huge March (Draws Close to 15,000, Per ABC News)

[Hissyspit]

Source: AFP

Labor unions join ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest for huge march

By Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

 NEW YORK — Thousands of anti-corporate demonstrators and union members poured through New York’s financial district Wednesday to protest inequality in the US economy.

The ranks of the more than two weeks-long sit-in protest in New York swelled hugely ahead of the start of the march as US labor unions lent their powerful voice to the movement, watched by large numbers of police.

Crowds banging drums and carrying signs like “Save our Republic” and “Equality, democracy, revolution,” crammed into the narrow, teeming streets near Wall Street, symbolic headquarters of the US corporate world.

Chanting “this is what democracy looks like” and “we are 99 percent,” the loosely woven coalition of protesters was now backed by major unions including the AFL-CIO, United Auto Workers and Transit Workers Union.

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@KeithOlbermann: ShowPlug1:#OccupyWallStreet NYC March draws close to 15,000, per ABC News. Unions join. Students walk out. First Statement "Declared."

[PETRUS]

1. See today's aerial shots? Beautiful. nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. K&R!

[aquart]

3. If it's huge, it's more than 15,000.

[chill_wind]

4. K & R. n/t

[sarcasmo]

5. All this attention is a great thing unless you are Sarah or the teabaggers.

[occupy_wall_street]

6. Occupy Wall Street invites you at DU to come Saturday at 11 AM.

Please assemble peacefully:

-- We look forward to the first OWS - DU event Saturday at 11 AM on October 8, 2011. The site is the Big Cube at the corner of Broadway and Liberty, on the Broadway side of Brown Brothers Harriman, 140 Broadway.

-- A speaker from OWS will greet everyone from DU. A statement of purpose and an invitation to support OWS will be presented.

Freely exercise your freedom of speech and of the press; and the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Please, as well, feel free to do all of this with Occupy Wall street.

[xchrom]

7. +1

[Iliyah]

8. Its probably

25 thousand.

When the tea nutty people were out and about they got 24/7 news covered and these corporate media people always bragged about soooooooooooooo many people (less than 100) protesting against Prez O, yada yada.

[Hissyspit]

9. Am thinking about it. Thanks.

[workinclasszero]

10. The 99 are beautiful!

I hope the new leaders of America are marching in NYC today!